Dr. Xinwen Fu

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Dr. Xinwen Fu is a Professor in the School of Computer & Information Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell. He was a tenured Associate Professor at University of Central Florida. His current research interests are in computer and network security and privacy. Dr. Fu has published at prestigious conferences including the four top computer security conferences (Oakland, CCS, USENIX Security and NDSS), and journals such as ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN) and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). He spoke at various technical security conferences including Black Hat. His research was reported by various Media including CNN, Wired, Huffington Post, Forbes, Yahoo, MIT Technology Review, PC Magazine and aired on CNN Domestic and International and the State Science and Education Channel of China (CCTV 10).

Dr. Xinwen Fu is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell. He received B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 1995, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China in 1998, and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2005.

Dr. Fu's current research interests are in network security and privacy, network forensics, computer forensics, information assurance, system reliability and networking QoS. Dr. Fu has published at all the four top computer security conferenes including IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), USENIX Security Symposium, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), other pretigious conferences including ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), ACM Sensys (ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems), IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) and IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), journals such as ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing (TMC) and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), book and book chapters. He spoke at various technical security conferences including Black Hat. His research is supported by NSF.

Dr. Fu won the best paper award at International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008, 2013, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA) 2013 and 2017, International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) 2016, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII) 2019. His students won the best student paper at the Colloquium for Information Security Education (CISSE) 2016 and the silver medal at the ACM Student Research Competition at ACM MobiCom 2011. His paper was chosen as the potlight Paper for the February 2014 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) and July 2010 Issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). His research was reported by various Media including CNN, Wired, Huffington Post, Forbes, Yahoo, MIT Technology Review, PC Magazine and aired on CNN Domestic and International and the State Science and Education Channel of China (CCTV 10).

Dr. Fu is active in academic service. He has been serving as TPC members for various prestigious conferences including IEEE Infocom, IEEE ICDCS, and SecureComm. He was a Program Co-chair of Communications & System Security Symposium, IEEE Globecom 2011 and the program co-chair of TrustCom 2010, Symposium Co-chair of Communications, Information Security ofInternational Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2015, Security Track Chairs of IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-16), and Symposium Chair, Communications and Information Security of International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2017), and Co-General Chair at the 2018 IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) and SecureComm 2019 - 15th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. He is an IEEE senior member.